The Crazy One show

The Crazy One

Summary: The Crazy One helps you find new breakthroughs in your career, creativity, leadership and more. In every episode, Stephen Gates give you honest and actionable insights taken from his experience leading global in-house and agency creative teams, building multiple Fortune 100 brands, and working as InVision’s Chief Design Evangelist coaching and working with some the world's most innovative companies.

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 Ep 84 Design: The need for ethical design | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:15

You may be tempted to skip this episode because ethics isn't the most exciting topic, but the need for a deeper understanding of ethical design is a huge emerging design trend. In this episode, we will look at two examples that highlight the need for a better understanding of ethical design, the 5 steps you can take to improve your ethical design process and why it needs to be an ongoing investment.

 Ep 83 Leadership: Your leadership maturity level, persona and communication style | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:13

We have talked a lot about leadership over the course of this show but this episode will focus more on concrete ways of measuring your leadership maturity, figuring out your leadership persona and look at 4 different leadership communication styles.

 Ep 82 Creativity: ’The Future is Creative’ keynote from HOW Design Live 2019 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:26

This episode is a replay of my main stage keynote from HOW Design Live 2019. This talk is a culmination of everything I have seen and learned over the past year and a half working at InVision. It is made up of three truths that I think affect all of us and the six things we need to work on in our companies and in our work and lives.

 Ep 81 Creativity: ‘Why innovation is rarely authorized’ panel from HOW Design 2019 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 38:34

Every company says they want more innovation and leaders who are able to deliver it yet they are often more afraid of extinction than the change that’s necessary. As a result, innovation often happens when teams go against the rules and even risk their jobs to get it done. This episode is a replay of a panel discussion about innovation with two of the smartest and most inspirational people I know - best-selling author, Greg Larkin and ex-IDEO and current Managing Director of Expa, Sina Mossayeb.

 Ep 80 Career: How to find and restore your confidence | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:36

Confidence is something we all seem to be constantly working on since it can be easily faked, lost, or thanks to design imposter syndrome always in short supply. Yet confidence is something that is critical for creativity, leadership, and happiness so we need to understand what undermines it and find new ways of restoring it. In this episode, we will look at the fears that commonly undermine our confidence and 5 ways effective ways to find or rebuild it.

 Ep 79 Listener questions: Design operations, start-ups, company “purpose", your career and building a team. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:29

In this episode, we will answer listener questions about clarifying design operations as a discipline, advice for designers who want to run their own start-up, how companies can make their purpose real and not just a marketing-induced pipe dream, dealing with the fear that your best work is behind you, and where to begin to create a UX strategy for a company that’s never had one before.

 Ep 78 Creativity: How improv can make your team more creative | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:08

At its best, creativity is about spontaneity, creativity, and collaboration. There are few places where we can all of these on display more easily than with improvisational comedy groups but what can they show us about how to improve our creative process and our teams? In this episode, we will look at what happens with improv that lets the creativity flow, what everyone can learn from it and how it can help your team and its culture.

 Ep 77 Leadership: ‘Building an In-House Design Powerhouse’ keynote from SXSW 2019 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:00

A replay of my sold out keynote ‘Building an In-House Design Powerhouse’ from SXSW 2019 that looked at how companies want creativity and design like never before, but very few of their internal creative teams have been empowered to take advantage of this demand. In this episode, I share proven techniques and insights I've has gained from working alongside the world’s best in-house creative teams as InVision’s Head Design Evangelist.

 Ep 76 Creativity: Why cognitive bias is the real problem with your work. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 35:18

Why is it no matter where we work we run into the same frustrating behaviors in our team, our clients, and even ourselves time and time again? More than likely there are some fundamental psychological biases we all have that are causing and fueling these problems. In this episode, we are going to look at the 6 different types of cognitive bias, what you can do to start to fight each one of them and help you understand why all of this is critical to your work, your team and your company.

 Ep 75 Career: How to survive corporate politics with grace and integrity | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:35

Dealing with politics is a necessary evil no matter where you work and at their worst can be so complicated that they can drive you out of a company or stand in the way of great work going out the door. In this episode, we will look at some of the emotional issues behind office politics and talk about the 8 habits that you can use to be able to survive them with grace and integrity.

 Ep 74 Process: Design Thinking isn't bullsh*t. The way you apply it is. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:05

Lately, I have seen some talks, articles and gotten some questions from people who are struggling with or just downright angry at using Design Thinking. It's something I've been able to use with a lot of success throughout my career so I reached out to some of these teams to understand what was going on. In this episode, we will look at why Design Thinking and/or Design Sprints getting beaten up, why do people feel this way, and in many cases, why I think their frustration is justified.

 Ep 73 Listener questions: Design leadership, office environments, design authority. conflict and sharing. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:38

In this episode we will answer listener questions about how to make the transition from design lead to design executive, how do you create a creative office environment, a look at where design authority should sit in a company, how to think abbot conflict inside of your team and some best practices for sharing knowledge across your team.

 Ep 72 Leadership: How to create REAL innovation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:23

Innovation is easily the most abused word in the corporate lexicon because we all talk about it so much but so few companies and teams are actually able to create it. In this episode, we will look at why innovation fails, the traits of truly innovative teams and what you can start doing on your team or in your company to fix all of this.

 Ep 71 Career: How to become a digital product designer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:59

The number one question I get asked on a weekly basis is how to move from a marketing, branding or advertising role into a digital design or product design role. Its a tough question and I've found that there are PRETTY MUCH NO resources out there to help people figure it out. In this episode, we will explain the difference between marketing and digital design, what they have in common, what is different and what you need to learn to be able to move into digital product design.

 Ep 70 Leadership: Understanding and improving your emotional intelligence | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:00

To lead creative teams you need to be able to understand your emotions, understand how other people feel and how your emotions can have an effect other people. In this episode, we are going to look at the five different parts of emotional intelligence to understand how they are all connected, how they affect you and what you can do to improve it.

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